What did the octopus know? Each day at work, when Alice fed it or cleaned its tank or gave it some item to keep it busy—a rubber dog toy, a teething ring—she wondered. She watched its eight roving arms moving around...
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Jamie Burke
Jamie Burke is a writer just on the edge of Boston. Her short fiction has been published in Black Heart Magazine, Toasted Cheese, Pachinko!, Postcard Shorts, and more, and her story “7-11” was a finalist for the Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction. Jamie has an MFA in Fiction from Emerson College, an oft-neglected banjo, two cats, and one son. She hopes she will soon fulfill her lifelong dream to appear as a contestant on The Price is Right. Jamie cannot tell you what her shirt idea is because it is really good and she fears you will steal it. You’ll just have to see.